Word Meanings - DEDENTITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The shedding of teeth. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to DEDENTITION)

• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• SHEDDING
  1. The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood. 2. That which is shed, or cast off. Wordsworth.
• SHEDDER
  A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood;
• TEETHING
  The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.